Brigitte Bardot Foundation

"With its 57.000 donators, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation is the protector of animal welfare (domestic and wild animals) all over the world.

"The whole story began in 1962, when Brigitte Bardot, a famous young actress at the time, denounced the methods used to kill animals for slaughter. A few years later, she obtained from the government the right for those animals to be stunned before slaughter.

"January 1962 : for the first time on television, Brigitte Bardot defends animals for slaughter.

"In 1977, images of baby seals massacred on the ice floe shatter the whole world and Mrs Bardot, who choses to defend them at all costs, succeeds in having a ban enacted concerning the sealskin trade.

"After those first victories, she endeavours to create her own Foundation for the protection of animals.

"Consequently, in 1986, Brigitte Bardot creates her Foundation in Saint-Tropez, in the South of France."

Contact
URL: http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/